{"product_id":"the-queens-of-crime-9781250379597","title":"The Queens of Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Mystery!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis program is read by actor Bessie Carter, best known for her role as Prudence Featherington on the Netflix series \u003ci\u003eBridgerton\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Narrator Bessie Carter...captures the personalities of the most famous women novelists of the golden age of detective fiction...What follows is a delightful, old-fashioned mystery. \" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Bessie Carter's excellent dialect work makes the banter between feminist New Zealander Marsh and Hungarian-born aristocrat Orczy both fun and revelatory.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Mrs. Christie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e--a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they're stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspired by a true story in Sayers' own life, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which five talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Bessie Carter's subtle changes in tone foster a growing sense of intrigue as the plot thickens.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAudioFile \u003c\/i\u003e(Earphones Award Winner)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARIE BENEDICT is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e USA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mitford Affair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHer Hidden Genius, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The Only Woman in the Room, Lady Clementine, Carnegie's Maid, The Other Einstein, \u003c\/i\u003e and with Victoria Christopher Murray, the Good Morning America Book Club pick \u003ci\u003eThe Personal Librarian \u003c\/i\u003eand the Target Book of the Year \u003ci\u003eThe First Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e. All have been translated into multiple languages, and many have been selected for the Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, Costco Book Club, Indie Next List, and LibraryReads List. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186458034450,"sku":"9781250379597","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24cf203c-92b7-43e9-9bb5-e4dbabc31425.jpg?v=1748590063","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-queens-of-crime-9781250379597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}